-w jihad•the new hacker's jihad. [title of a section of an article. (the war between Free Software and Microsoft.)]→There also seems to be a Jihad going on between GNU Emacs and Xemacs. [from the web]

-w cavort•There he was preparing to cavort in the buff with Andie MacDowell…But for him the occasion proved mortifying.→(Tom) Cruise attends a floating sex party where masked participants cavort. [Time Mag. on film Eyes Wide Shut.]

-w soporific•hypnagogic→Mozart's music is a repetitive, soporific bore.

-w wunderkind•Unlike most of the fire-breathing Soviet wunderkinder, though, Richter came to the piano late… [Time Mag?]→…[uncovered recordings] were released earlier this fall with the imprimatur of the temperamental pianist. [Time Mag?]

-w hawker•Apparently unfulfilled by her new status as Home Shopping Network hawker, bad novelist and celebrity divorcéé, Ivana Trump has decided to acquire the ultimate accessory: a millionaire European husband. …a suavely hunky Italian engineer and her boyfriend of three years… [source: probably from time mag]→ AOL Hawks Cheap PC to Lure Subscribers [online news caption, 2003-12-04]

-w piffle•“Oh, piffle!”→ …your talk is piffle.

-w revue•…entirely elegant revue of card conjuring… [Time mag.]→…he wrote and performed in satirical revues.

-w feisty•critics question whether IBM has truly developed a plan that will enable it to compete in the long run against feisty and fast-moving rivals…→A spoof of Wagner's opera cycle is feisty but crude.

-w rut•(sexual heat)→…and if they aren't in rut that night, nothing happens.

-w tyke•scamp, gamine, guttersnipe.→“when i was a little tyke, my father …”

-e drivel → Robby drivel and drool over a tome of Encyclopedia Britannica

-e growl → as a dog would growl or grovel

-e pub → whence you picked that chick?

-e smut → the interner are littled with smut, so does all human media since dawn of time.

-e disclaimer → disclaimer is a negative claim, basically.

-e simplicity → simple, not simpler [Albert Einstein]; simplicity, not simplistic; and don't be a simpleton in any case.

-e screech → the tires screeched and scorched

-e classified → When something is secret, we say it is “classified”. This shows that secrecy itself needs to be a secret. Now, does the word etymology support my suggestion?

-e mesmerize → The girls' vision of Borovnia utterly mesmerizes them. Anyone who would break the spell-like Pauline's sweet, anxious mom-must be a witch. [Time mag on the movie that tells the true story of two school girls murdered one of their mom. I think it was _heaven's gate_]

-e brouhaha → There seemed, in fact, to be a net-wide [internet] brouhaha in progress.

-g insipid → he has far more important and pressing matters to attend to than to humor your incipid posts, … [taunt in comp.lang.lisp]

-g quirk → twitching her eyes was her quirk → the universe is full of quirks

-g reciprocal → one must understanding, that love is not something reciprocal

-g harry

-g aback → i was taken aback

-g heinous → your crime, is a heinous crime

-g heretic → Buddha can be considered as a heretic.

-g furor → the furors of Emily Dickson on paper

-g dispel → facts dispels the lore that the human race on the whole is going downhill

-g moot → moot point

-g tumid → tumid cock spawns.

-g ricochet → Jesus ricocheting himself across the river

-g quandary → It's the same statistical quandary that basketball coaches face all the time. Nearly all great male hoopsters tower over 6 ft. 5 in. but that does not mean that all tall men are great basketball players. [probably Time Mag or online articles.]

-h tit-for-tat → BitTorrent is a networking technology, that speeds up distribution of info by letting receiving computers to help distribute the info they received among themseles. BitTorrent website document has the following item: Q: I don't want you stealing my bandwidth! How can I stop it from uploading? Answer: You could hack the source to not upload, but then your download rate would suck. BitTorrent downloaders engage in tit-for-tat with their peers, so leeches have very little success downloading. [article on BitTorrent. 2003-05]

-i scoop → here's the scoop: “…I…her…sex…but…then…Tom… phew, in so many words.”.

-i welch → “i'm dubious, but i don't welch” [dialogue from film Being John Malkovich (1999)]

-i spunk → we can't last without a new shot of spunk [lyrics of _new position_ from Price's _under the cherry moon_ album]

-i high horse → No need for the high horse, we have plenty. [online group rant by Zachery Bir. 2001-12]

-i wangled

-i wisenheimers

-i mobster

-j racket → tennis racket → loud noise → fraud, extortion

-j gonzo → description of the Elegant Angle porn movie production house: the product line emphasizes gonzo (a xxx genre where the performers acknowledge the presence of the camera) and vignette releases, as opposed to feature productions with extensive scripts. → Merriem-Webster defines: gonzo: idiosyncratically subjective but engagé (e.g. gonzo journalism); also : BIZARRE → and engagé is defined by AH as: adj. 1. Actively committed, as to a political cause

-l roister → …roistering in memory or anticipation with a flotilla of others.

-l quell → quell your lust with a cold shower

-l hark → hark hark, here come the mosters in our beds

-l gusto → swallowed it with gusto

-l hamlet → small village

-l hauteur → contain your hauteur

-l immolation

-l immure

-l din → what's all this din

-l dulcet → can't resist her dulcet whispers

-l strife → To force a change in the light to relieve you of strife [lyrics from Switchblade Symphony, Naked Birthday, 1999]

-l throe → Forgotten throes of anothers life\ The heart of love is their only light\ Faithless greeds,consolidating\ Holding down sweet charity\ With western eyes and serpents breath\ We lay our own conscience to rest\ … —lyric from _Western Eyes, Portishead/Portishead 1997.

-l elysium → the place of masochist's love heaven. [song title of Portishead/Portishead 1997]

-l firmament

-l maestro

-l cavalier → And powerful psychoactive drugs can indeed be dangerous if used cavalierly.

-l forlorn → These forlorn scenes may be just a transitional phase.

-l grub → “Tawdry”, “worthless” and “grubby” were the words Buckingham Palace used to describe [the book] _Princess in Love_.

-l trice → do it once, do it twice, do it thrice a day.

-l skirmish

-l lissome → drool over her lissome body

-l spinster →

-l barbarity → barbaric

-l steed → horse, with poetic justice

-l lackadaisical → Sokal and Bricmont identify French intellectuals as the driving force behind postmodernism, but point out that the movement has been broadly taken up by layers of the intelligentsia in Britain and America: “The lackadaisical attitude toward scientific rigour that one finds in Lacan, Kriesteva, Baudrillard and Deleuze had an undeniable success in France during the 1970s and is still remarkably influential there. This way of thinking spread outside France, notably in the English-speaking world during the 1980s and 1990s” (p. 194). [ 〈The post-modernist wonderland: Intellectual Impostures by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont〉 By Stefan Steinberg, 2000-07-01. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/jul2000/post-j01.shtml]

-l belles-lettres → Unlike commerce, communication, and hot lesbo action, good writing hasn't always been well served by the information age. And why should it? The sublimities of belles-lettres are far too subtle for the crude mechanisms of AI bots. [satire from http://www.suck.com./daily/2000/03/17/]

-l mull → why don't you sit here and mull over the significance of your stupidity.

-nn raptor → birds of prey. Some dinasours are supposed to be raptors.

-nn iguana

-nn grail → This was the holy grail of interactive television: true video no demand. [probably from online article or Time Mag on Interactive TV] → grail by itself means cup or plate, in particular in Holy Grail.

-nn parapet → bulwark, breastwork, earthwork, rampart, bastion

-nn trinket → gaud

-nn salve → some kinda ointment; balm

-nn winch → a hoisting machine with ropes and reels

-s acumen → impress me with your acumen. Dr Lector in film “Silence of the Lamb” said something like that.

-sp swimmingly → But, what if everything is going swimmingly, your job is secure, and you don't have any large upcoming financial needs (like kids going to college)? In that case, you should probably be a little more aggressive with your contributions. [web article on 401K plan, 2002-11]

-sp cinch → … and is a cinch to use. [praising an remote control design]

-w agog → “i'm grateful to you that you came to me from my call”; “don't be silly i'm all agog” [dialogue from film “Caberet”]

-w rhapsodic → And you're using Mac OS X why? Some of us just recognize good software, and use it independently of its philosophy. I wax rhapsodic every once in a while, and feel the tug of a completely Free OS+, but then I watch my lovely LotR [Lord of the Ring] movie trailers on apple.com/quicktime/ and then… it passes. [online rant by Zachery Bir. 2001-12. Rhapsody was the project name for Apple's then Operating System]

-w boor→ You are a hypocrite and a boor. Learn to write.

-w ersatz → flimsy imination

-w avatar → This is my last post on the avatar formerly known as Xah. [Roger Howard, 2002, in macosx-talk email]

-w sassy → look at this piece of sassy jailbait

-w contuse → in the sadomasochism (SM) community, the word contuse is much used. That is, whip or flog a subject without breaking the skin. So that it does not leave scars, so thrashing can be repeated on a unscarred body. When well done, the pattern of welts on the subject's body is appreciated.

-w salable

-w skulduggery → Heaven only knows what vast, embarrassing skulduggery the agency [National Security Agency] is up to under Fort Meade with its 40,000 mathematicians, but whatever it is, the NSA certainly doesn't want to stop just becaues computers belong to everybody now. [Bruce Sterling in Time Mag, 2000-06-02, “Will Cybercriminals run the world?”]

-w enthuse → euthanasia is a euphony for killing those insufferable, enthused by sufferers.

-w concomitant → …Or another concomitant cause may counteract the effect of the other existent cause. [source forgotten. probably talking about dinosaur's extinction]

-w sophistry → [Steve] Jobs reacted to this unfavorable publicity with explanations that were an admixture of paranoia and sophistry that attempted to convert an apparent setback into a triumph. [probably online news on Apple]

-w posit → Arthur Schlesinger Jr. has posited that the American political mood sometimes evolves in 30-year cycles, swinging from activism to conservatism and back again. But consider the electorate's volatility during the past three years, from 1991, when George Bush's approval ratings were at historic highs, to Bill Clinton's election to the recent Republican landslide. Evidence indicates that we are operating under 30-week or possibly even 30-day cycles. [source forgotten]

-w bumptious → Adler describes the several juries he examined from selection through trial proceedings to the deliberations that bumptiously rendered a verdict.

-w trenchant → compiled two volumes of trenchant essays.

-w transmute → The story [movie A Few Good Men] is based on fact, as transmuted into a Broadway play by Aaron Sorkin. [probably Time Mag]

-w camaraderie → …almost turn it [the moive Disclosure] into a realistic portrait of the modern workplace — full of false camaraderie, anxious rumors and secret-status warfare. [SEX! CONTROVERSY! BOX OFFICE!, By Richard Shickel, Time Magazine. Review on movie Disclosure]

-w levy → …they sought to levy a weekly tariff of two dollars on every theater that showed their films, in addition to film rentals.

-w smatter → unix lovers: expert of nothing, smatter of all things.

-w blandish → This was the year when millions of Americans — having resisted the computer industry's blandishments for more than a decade — finally made the plunge [of buying a computer] [“Ho, Ho, Ho, Crash!” by Joshua Quittner. (on technology) 1994-12-26, Time Mag.]. → cajole, wheedle → blandish is not to be confused with brandish, however, one can blandish as well as brandish with a cock.

-w augury → The believers knew a divine augury when they heard one. → …Because children are the nation's greatest asset, this alarming situation does not augur well for the future welfare of the country.

-w babel → Only a minority of institutions practice pure oralism anymore; but a babel of challenges to ASL remain. [Time Mag.]

-w fluke → As an attempt to elevate films, it was doomed to failure, although the Film D'Art did meet with an initial, somewhat fluky period of success.

-w beatific → The Christian Coalition's Ralph Reed — that born-again little shtunk — with his beatific, shit-eating smile is the worst of the religious-right breed because he appears so harmless. [online rant, ~1998?]

-w gratuity → tips are supposed to be a gratuity, but restaurant tipping custom in USA we have is not.

-w gormless → The cop likes or loves Selma or something (he is too gormless to be sure), but betrays her trust.

-w miasma, effluvium → when one blows a puff of cigarette smoke out in a dramatic way as in movies, we could say it's effluvium out of one's mouth.

-w bistros → in 2001, the City was bursting with bistros. Suppers were being served out on the sidewalks to deal with all the customers who were flush with high-tech salaries. But since the dot-com bubble burst, things have changed. [online news, 2003-05]

-w lam, quorum → Statehouse Democrats Flee Texas in Rift (AP) - Democrats who fled to a Holiday Inn in Oklahoma to thwart a Republican drive to redraw the state's congressional districts spent their second day on the lam Tuesday talking to jovial constituents who made the trek across the state line to show their support. The constituents brought fruit baskets, balloons and cookies for the House Democrats, two days after they sneaked out of Austin amid a heated battle over a GOP redistricting plan. Three Democrats returned to the Capitol on Tuesday, but Republicans were still denied a quorum needed to conduct business. [online nuws, 2003-05]